Ricci first played Borden, a Massachusetts woman who killed her stepmother and father in the 1800s, in the TV movie 'Lizzie Borden Took An Ax' in January 2014.

"I think she's a really fun character to play. I mean, she's out of her mind and a bad person and she likes to commit murder. So, I just go to a place where things are fun and dark," she said about her role in the upcoming, fictionalised series.

"This came up sort of out of the blue. I never expected to play her again," she added. Ricci and her husband James Heerdegen welcomed a baby boy past August.